Bidspirit auction | 1920s. Multiple Authors. A Collection

1920s. Multiple Authors. A Collection of Volumes from the Little Leather Library Redcroft Edition. - This collection of miniature volumes consists of multiple works from the Redcroft Edition series, published by the Little Leather Library Corporation of New York. The collection includes titles by various classical and prominent authors, including Dante Alighieri, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elbert Hubbard, W.B. Yeats, Plato, James Allen, James Barrie, Ivan Turgenev, Alexandre Dumas, Maurice Maeterlinck, Charles Lamb, Rudyard Kipling, and John Greenleaf Whittier. The books are bound in flexible, embossed imitation leather, marketed historically as Croft leather, featuring a textured finish. Most volumes exhibit a green verdigris style coloration, while at least one volume is bound in red. Each cover is decorated with a rectangular embossed border and embossed titles. The reverse of the volumes bears a square embossed publisher mark with a stylized letter L and the text Little Leather Library Redcroft Edition. An interior title page for Dante's Inferno Volume II identifies the publisher as Little Leather Library Corporation, New York. Titles present in the collection include Inferno (Volumes I, II, and III), The Holy Grail, Fifty Best Poems of England, Lancelot and Elaine, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mumu, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, A Comedy of Errors, The Trial of Socrates, A Message to Garcia, Land of Heart's Desire, As a Man Thinketh, A Tillyloss Scandal, Sonnets from the Portuguese, Comtesse de St. Geran, Pelleas and Melisande, Dream Children, Finest Story in the World, and Snowbound and Other Poems. Height: approximately 4 inches. The collection is in aged condition with significant signs of wear throughout. Bindings show rubbing to the edges and spines, corner bumping, and surface cracking. Several spines exhibit loss of finish or fraying. Interior pages are heavily tanned and toned with age. Notable water damage is present in several volumes, characterized by prominent tide marks and staining on the endpapers and internal pages.